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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Part apartment, part hotel, Sonder moves into Seattle with its tech-enabled hospitality option

GeekWire

Sonder , a tech-enabled hospitality company, is moving into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis , a modern development located at 1300 E. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Sonder Photo).

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Take FinOps beyond the cloud: How to widen your IT financial savings

CIO Business Intelligence

A new surge of enthusiasm surrounds a strategic framework poised to simplify the management of cloud expenses and help companies lower their IT costs — it’s called FinOps, a portmanteau of the words Financial and DevOps. Companies often have a glut of network and telecommunications resources that are no longer used.

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TSA checkpoints will start supporting Apple Wallet IDs in February

The Verge

When Apple introduced its updated Apple Wallet in June, the company said it was working to ensure you could use it to get through airport security — and now, we have our first word from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on exactly when that will happen. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Now Apple’s iPhone car key will unlock certain 2022 Genesis and Kia models

The Verge

There hasn’t been an official announcement from Apple or either car company yet, so there may be more steps involved in the rollout. A Kia spokesperson told MacRumors that the company will have “more information” about digital keys “in the coming weeks.”

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Disney inks a huge Sony deal to bring Spider-Man and other films to Disney Plus and Hulu

The Verge

Disney and Sony Pictures have signed a multi-year “content licensing agreement” that will bring new Sony theatrical releases, starting with its 2022 films, to Disney-owned platforms. Other Sony Pictures properties, such as Jumanji and Hotel Transylvania , are also included in the deal, according to a press release.

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Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

GeekWire

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. . Total funding in the 20-person company is $12 million. Vouched Photo).

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